Popular scientific recreations, tr. and enlarged from 'Les récréations scientifiques'. |
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... less valuable contrivances , for making science useful in the house . Having described some scientific toys for the young , we have endeavoured to point out those interesting to persons of riper years , and have grouped together curious ...
... less valuable contrivances , for making science useful in the house . Having described some scientific toys for the young , we have endeavoured to point out those interesting to persons of riper years , and have grouped together curious ...
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... less than twelve inches in diameter . The rocks of Cape Grisnez , not far from Boulogne , also afford the geologian the opportunity of a number of curious investigations . In the Ardennes and the Alps I have frequently procured some ...
... less than twelve inches in diameter . The rocks of Cape Grisnez , not far from Boulogne , also afford the geologian the opportunity of a number of curious investigations . In the Ardennes and the Alps I have frequently procured some ...
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... less , because we are more distant from the centre of the earth . This decrease is scarcely , if at all , perceptible , even on very high mountains , because their size is not great in comparison with the mass of the earth's surface ...
... less , because we are more distant from the centre of the earth . This decrease is scarcely , if at all , perceptible , even on very high mountains , because their size is not great in comparison with the mass of the earth's surface ...
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... less and less , till rest is reached by the action of gravity ( page 23 ) . Were it not for friction and the pressure of the air , the oscillations would continue for ever ; as it is , it declines by shorter swings till it remains in ...
... less and less , till rest is reached by the action of gravity ( page 23 ) . Were it not for friction and the pressure of the air , the oscillations would continue for ever ; as it is , it declines by shorter swings till it remains in ...
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Gaston Tissandier. CENTRIFUGAL FORCE . 43 less , and at the pole more . Thus it was discovered that , as the movements of the pendulum are dependent upon the force of gravity , and as this force decreases the farther we get from the ...
Gaston Tissandier. CENTRIFUGAL FORCE . 43 less , and at the pole more . Thus it was discovered that , as the movements of the pendulum are dependent upon the force of gravity , and as this force decreases the farther we get from the ...
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Página 447 - The squares of the periods of revolution of any two planets are proportional to the cubes of their mean distances from the sun.
Página 311 - There is a place for everything and everything is in its place.
Página 533 - He telleth the number of the stars, and calleth them all by their names.
Página 549 - There rolls the deep where grew the tree; Oh, Earth, what changes hast thou seen ! There, where the long street roars, has been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to form, and nothing stands ; They melt like mists, the solid lands — Like clouds, they shape themselves and go...
Página 466 - ... 430 feet ; Mars, a rather large pin's head, on a circle of 654 feet ; Juno, Ceres, Vesta, and Pallas, grains of sand, in orbits of from...
Página 446 - Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied, for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant* sung; Silence was pleased: now...
Página 492 - Saw the moon rise from the water Rippling, rounding from the water, Saw the flecks and shadows on it, Whispered, "What is that, Nokomis?" And the good Nokomis answered : " Once a warrior, very angry, Seized his grandmother, and threw her Up into the sky at midnight; Right against the moon he threw her ; "Tis her body that you see there." Saw the rainbow in the heaven, In the eastern sky the rainbow, Whispered,
Página 630 - Her silver crescent tipped with sable clouds, Conclude she bodes a tempest on the main, And brews for fields impetuous floods of rain.
Página 593 - Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord ; at the presence of the God of Jacob ; 8 Who turned the hard rock into a standing water, and the flint-stone into a springing well.
Página 449 - The Axis OF THE EARTH is an imaginary line passing through the centre of it...